"Why," he said, "there's a faucet, and water will come. I've seen the mortar man get it there."
"Yes," said the foreman. "We had to have water to use. It comes through this pipe that lies on top of the ground all the way to your house. See?"
And the foreman showed David the pipe. It was hidden by the long grass.
"They're going to lay the pipes now, Davie. Do you want to see them do it?"
So David put his little hand into the foreman's big one, and they went together to where the men were.
The men had got up out of the trench, and they were going to take up one of the iron pipes that lay in the gutter.
Just as they began to lift it, out of one end of it popped David's kitty. She scurried around and popped into the end of another pipe, and all the men laughed.
"Funny kitty," said David.
Then the men took hold of the pipe that the cat had been in at first, and they lifted it, one at each end, and they carried it and put it down beside the trench.